Sprint argues that Long Term Evolution (LTE) will be two years ahead of UMTS LTE.
They are right and that opens the door for WiMAX, apart from the issue of backwards compatibility and spectrum availability.
TelecomView is tracking the market for technology and services that use broadband wireless in fixed and mobile applications. What is happening in the market? Which standards will succeed and why? How will WiMAX, WCDMA, LTE and CDMA compete with or complement each other? How will operators use the various broadband mobile wireless technologies to compete?